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No fewer than 45 civilians have been killed and houses burnt by jihadists affiliated with the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group in an attack on a community in northern Mali.
According to AFP, a local elected official and leader of an gang confirmed the attack.
The raid was followed by intense fighting between them and other gangs in the region, including rival jihadists who have pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda, the sources said.
"More than 45 non-combatants were killed when the Islamic State took over (on Tuesday) — they burned down houses, the market and other places," the official said.
"What really worries us is the humanitarian situation — the people are on their own."
The attack occurred at Talataye, about 150 kilometers (90 miles) from the city of Gao.
An agglomeration of hamlets, it has been battered by fighting in Mali’s decade-long security crisis, lying at the heart of competing areas of influence.
An official from the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad (MSA),
| …Movement for the Salvation of Azawad in full, a secular Tuareg ethnic independence movement that suddenly appeared in Mali’s Azawad in 2016… |
"The fighting between the various jihadist groups resulted in the deaths of several dozen civilians," said an international humanitarian worker in the region, also speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
"Some maimed who could not be helped died afterwards."
One of the poorest countries in the world, landlocked Mali has been battling separatist and jihadist insurgencies since 2012.
Jihadist-fuelled violence began in the north and then spread to the centre of the country before reaching into neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
Across the three countries, thousands of civilians, police and soldiers have died and millions have fled their homes.